It's an Irish Spring on Broadway

摘要

Stooped and shabby, he slips quietly onto the stage, but when the title character in Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" starts to speak, he becomes a magnetic force field. Brilliantly played by Ralph Fiennes, with burning eyes and long fingers tracing lines in the air, he has you hooked. Or is it hoodwinked? Even Fantastic Francis Hardy, as the healer is billed, isn't sure whether he has an "awesome gift" or is simply a "con man." Or a con artist Whatever else he is or isn't, Frank's a genius of a storyteller.